Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Education Committee has voted to break the ten-year-old rule that every Freshman must take General Education Ahf, and permit students to fulfill the composition requirement by work done in Freshman seminars...
...change, reportedly made over the protests of some people closely connected with Gen Ed A, is not an exemption from the course, Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education A stated. He said the staff of the course was, "in no way bothered" by the decision, since it simply reduced the number of students in the course...
Wilcox said that he was "encouraged" by the change, which he felt was a step toward the concept of the composition requirement envisioned by the founders of the General Education program. In the "Redbook"--General Education in a Free Society--on which the original program was based, the authors expressed the hope that eventually the composition course would be absorbed by other courses in the program. Wilcox suggested that the current change might be the first step towards such an assimilation...
Seeking to "make a greater contribution to astronomy," Dr. Josef Allen Hynek, Visiting Lecturer on General Education, has accepted a position as professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University...
After exploring the reasons for growing "grey areas" and decreasing population in the nation's old cities, the book examines the causes and results of the general factory "flight to the suburbs." The chief result, according to Vernon and Hoover, is the appearance of suburban slums...